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Interdisciplinary working in mental health
- Author:
- BAILEY Di
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 256p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book presents a model for interdisciplinary working, and offers an overview of practice and policy across a range of mental health settings. It explores how to combine skills, theories and expertise from a range of disciplines in response to the diverse needs of service users, from children to older people, and those with complex needs. Chapters include: the evolution of interdisciplinary working: definitions and policy context; models and values for interdisciplinary working in mental health; interdisciplinary working and the mental health legislation; interdisciplinary care planning in mental health; interdisciplinary risk assessment planning and management; involving people who use services in interdisciplinary working in mental health; interdisciplinary working with people with mental health problems in primary care; interdisciplinary working with children and young people with mental health problems; interdisciplinary working with older adults with mental health needs; interdisciplinary working with individuals with complex needs; interdisciplinary education and training; and managing interdisciplinary working and practice in mental health.
Partners in caring 1994/95: the key issues in the personal social services annual report from the Chief Inspector of Social Services Inspectorate
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Promotion and prevention in child, adolescent and young people mental health: the Greek experience of participation in the mental health network programme of the European Commission
- Authors:
- KOLAITIS Gerasimos, TSIANTIS John
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 5(3), August 2003, pp.31-35.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In 1997 the European Commission established the Mental Health Promotion Network to seek out, disseminate and promote best practice in mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders. The Network has commissioned a number of projects including two projects addressing the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorders in children and adolescents. Anticipated results included the establishment of criteria to identify good practice, development of a European database of good practice and widespread dissemination of good practice that could be implemented throughout the Community. Discusses the involvement and experiences of the staff employed in one organisation, from Greece, who have participated in the work Network, and highlights some of the difficulties faced and lessons learnt from participation in a multi-national project.
Promoting positive human-animal interaction: the role of the social worker in the multidisciplinary team
- Authors:
- van HEERDEN M., du PREEZ M.S.E.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 38(2), June 2002, pp.91-104.
Social work focuses, among other things, on the bond between people and their environment. Discusses the role of companion animals in people's lives, and how human-animal interaction can be used in social work interventions. Makes recommendations on how the social worker can promote positive human-animal interaction through multidisciplinary co-operation.
Caring for a community: the community care policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Authors:
- BHUGRA Dinesh, BRIDGES Keith, THOMPSON Chris
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 104p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the revised policy on care in the community for people with mental health problems. Covers the causes and effects of psychiatric disorders which affect service delivery; principles of a community psychiatry service; the organisation and provision of services for children, adults and older people; training; and the legal framework.
Physiotherapy in mental health: a practical approach
- Authors:
- EVERETT Tina, DENNIS Maureen, RICKETTS Eirian
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 435p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Challenges the artificial divide between mind and body and suggests that the physiotherapist has a role to play in promoting mental health. Looks at psychiatric illnesses and models of mental disorder and goes on to look at practical ways physiotherapy can help. Part 3 looks at physiotherapy in specific areas such as: child psychiatry; eating disorders; substance misuse; post traumatic stress disorder; forensic psychiatry; dementia; and mental illness in old age.
Social work practice in health care
- Editors:
- BADAWI Mieke, BIAMONTI Brenda
- Publisher:
- Woodhead-Faulkner
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Discusses ways of organising social work in a health setting; the nature of health-based social work; building links between the hospital and community; multidisciplinary framework; and working with various client groups, including children, old people and the chronically ill.
Partners in caring: the fourth annual report of the Chief Inspector Social Services Inspectorate 1994/95
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 102p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social services: achievement and challenge; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, March 1997
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Government White Paper on the future of social services.
Policy statements
- Author:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 1 v.,looseleaf
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham